Drama
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil. When they petition to have him declared incompetent, a family-court counselor witnesses his obsession slide into ruin—and asks whether ignoring the atomic threat is any saner.
Directed by
Akira Kurosawa
Written by
Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni
Toshirō Mifune
Kiichi Nakajima
Takashi Shimura
Domestic Court Counselor Dr. Harada
Minoru Chiaki
Jiro Nakajima
Kamatari Fujiwara
Okamoto
Eijirō Tōno
Old man from Brazil
Kyoko Aoyama
Sue Nakajima
Kichijirō Ueda
Mr. Kuribayashi father
Nobuo Nakamura
Psychologist
Noriko Sengoku
Kimie Nakajima
Bokuzen Hidari
Landowner
Hiroshi Tachikawa
Ryoichi Sayama
Haruo Nakajima
Foundry employee (uncredited)
Akemi Negishi
Asako Kuribayashi
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Factory Worker after Fire
Noriko Honma
Worker family member
Kiyomi Mizunoya
Satoko
Toranosuke Ogawa
Hori, the lawyer
Masao Shimizu
Yamazaki, Yoshi's husband
Atsushi Watanabe
Factory Worker Ishida
Kokuten Kōdō
Workers' Older Family Member
Gen Shimizu
Haruko Tōgō
Yoshi Nakajima
Eiko Miyoshi
Toyo Nakajima
Kazuo Katō
Susumu
Senkichi Ōmura
Skinny Jailbird
Yutaka Sada
Ichiro Nakajima
Takuzō Kumagai
Psychiatric nurse (uncredited)
Yoshiko Miyata
Secretary Tamiya
Toyoko Okubo
Susumu's wife Sumiko
Saoko Yonemura
Taeko
Ken Mitsuda
Judge Araki
Akira Tani
Chunky Jailbird
Gorô Sakurai
Factory worker

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